Dr. Nicole Bentze will serve as the new Dean of the Sarasota Regional Medical Campus starting on 21 September 2018. She will work with Dr. Bruce Berg as the Dean-Designate until 1 November when Dr. Berg retires.

Dr. Bentze is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Philadelphia, PA and completed her Family Medicine training at the Harrisburg Family Medicine Residency Program in Harrisburg, PA in 2003. She has served as the Family Medicine Clerkship Director for 3rd and 4th year College of Medicine students since 2008 and has worked in both private practice of Family Medicine and as a residency faculty member since completing her residency. She has completed a fellowship in Medical Education Research and Development at Michigan State and is a Fellow of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Medical Student Educator Development institute. In her role as FSU Clerkship Director, she was recognized by the Florida Academy of Family Physicians as Educator of the Year in 2011.

The Florida State University College of Medicine, Sarasota Campus, and Dr. Bruce Berg, Dean, are pleased to announce that Steven Brownlee, Attorney At Law has joined the college’s Community Board.

“Steven Brownlee’s background in health care and astute legal acumen have drawn the admiration of members of the Sarasota community and we welcome him to our Community Board” said Dr. Berg.

Steven attended Pennsylvania State University, and earned his M.D. from Temple University. He obtained his M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and his J.D. from Stetson University College of Law. His patient care experience involved inpatient, outpatient, surgical, and emergency settings at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mercy Hospital.  He has received certification in Health Care Compliance from the Health Care Compliance Association.

The Community Board for each of the medical school’s regional campuses serves in an advisory capacity to the campus dean and includes representation from the local medical community, as well as the community at large. 

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From Dean Fogarty:     It is bittersweet to announce that Dr. Bruce Berg has decided to step down from his role as Regional Campus Dean at our Sarasota Regional Medical Campus and retire this fall. He has had a long and distinguished career with the FSU College of Medicine, establishing the Sarasota campus fourteen years ago as Founding Dean and helped us navigate through one of our early LCME site visits there in 2006. One of his first duties was to host the LCME for a site visit prior to having students there. Before this, he served for many years in Sarasota as a Pulmonologist and Intensivist and helped SMH implement their first EMR before joining the College of Medicine. His relationships with SMH were critical to our efforts to establish residency programs there, first in Internal Medicine and recently in Emergency Medicine. As we celebrated the 10th anniversary of that campus in 2016, it was obvious that Bruce has made great contributions to that campus in his time there. He has mentored and guided our first generation of students there and served as a great advocate and advisor for them. I attended the campus graduation dinner there last week and it was obvious the great admiration and affection that the whole campus and community has for him.

He has been talking to his family over the last several years about when retirement might be appropriate and the fall of this year seemed like the best time. He looks forward to spending more time with family and grandchildren and more time sailing in the waters around Sarasota. I have formed a search committee to identify Dr. Berg’s replacement. Dr. Juliette Lomax-Homier has agreed to chair the committee. They will meet over this summer to identify candidates and we hope to have the new Dean named in late summer to work with Dr. Berg during this time.

Please join me in thanking Dean Berg for his excellent service and dedication to the College of Medicine in his 14 years as Regional Dean. There will be more details over the summer on plans for celebrating this important milestone.

With best wishes,
 

Julia Teytelbaum, 4th year medical school in Sarasota, speaks with host Heidi Godman about Match day and residency programs. 

Obstetrics and Gynecology physician Dr. Kathryn Gard, has joined Sarasota Memorial Hospital's First Physician's Group.  Dr. Gard is a 2013 graduate of FSU's College of Medicine.  Welcome back to Sarasota!

Drs. Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch, Karen Hamad, and Vida Farhangi bring quality, affordable care to Newtown. 

Sarasota Pediatrician, and FSU Sarasota Clerkship Faculty member,  Katherine Keeley, MD, was awarded Sarasota Memorial Hospital's 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award on October, 24, 2017. 

In a Sarasota neighborhood with no doctor’s offices and little access to health care, a new clinic in Newtown is bringing medical care and so much more.

Since the turn of the last century and the days of segregation, the Newtown neighborhood north of Downtown Sarasota has been predominantly African-American, and as development pushed capital into other neighborhoods, the neighborhood went mostly ignored. That changed last week when a long-held dream became reality for one physician with a vision: Dr. Karen Hamad, the associate director of the Florida State University College of Medicine’s Internal Residency Program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. At the ribbon opening ceremony for the clinic last week, Dr. Hamad talked about the three years it took to put the pieces together for the Jean and Alfred Goldstein Health Center, which will be more than a clinic.